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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

New magazine...

I had to run to Sprouts today to pick up a few items and noticed that they had Martha's new Holiday Cookie magazine. I have been looking for this for a week or so and no one had it. I have not read through it, but flipping through the pages and looking at the pictures it does look well done! Every recipe has a picture and I love that the index also has a thumbnail picture by each cookie name.Soup and a salad for dinner tonight. Turkey Noodle Soup and Mexican Salad with Pomegranate-Lime Dressing turned out to be a very comforting and filling meal. I have been waiting for an excuse to buy some pomegranates and glad I found this recipe. Juicing the seeds turned out to be much easier that I feared. The fresh pomegranate juice helps calm the tart lime and the dressing brightens up all the flavors in the salad.

This is the first time I have used Jicama, the taste is like a sweet apple with the texture of a potato. The original recipe called for pine nuts and arugala, but I used toasted sliced almonds and baby spinach.

This was a perfect night for soup. All the windows were open and the cool breeze (75 is cool nowadays...) brought the temperature in the house down. For being a quick soup, the flavor bursted out at the first spoonful! I used Trader Joe's chicken broth and with a small amount of prep time the soup was done in just a few minutes. Definetly a nice warm comforting soup with lots of turkey and noodles.

Great find!! Looks like I'll have to pick up that recipe mag and FAST!! I think I might have to plan ahead this year. First of all I have to work Thanksgiving, which I am NOT happy about. The tradeoff is I get xmas. And we spend Xmas in our tiny house in Carmel (virtually no kitchen) so I'll have to pre-make some cookies and fly with them. Eek!

I was just paging through a martha holiday cookie mag from 2001! There are still cookies in there I have yet to try. How's the current one look- or rather, do you like the collection of cookies included?

On Friday, I went downtown in search for cardamon... Anyway, in front of a William Sonoma store, there was a very, very long line of folks waiting to go inside. I asked what was going on and was told that Martha was doing a book signing. The line was unbelievable.